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Bash Aliases

Create an alias.

alias gcloud='docker run --rm -ti --volumes-from gcloud-config google/cloud-sdk:latest gcloud'

Remove an alias.

unalias gcloud

GCP Update Instance Metadata

How to update an instance metadata in GCP.

gcloud compute instances add-metadata instance-name \
--metadata key-name=value \
--project your-project-id \
--zone us-central1-a

In this example, we are adding enable-oslogin=TRUE.

gcloud compute instances add-metadata instance-name \
--metadata enable-oslogin=TRUE \
--project your-project-id \
--zone us-central1-a

Terraform GCP Firewall

How to create GCP firewall via Terraform.

Ingress

provider "google" {
    project = "project-id"
}
resource "google_compute_firewall" "default" {
    name    = "test-firewall"
    description = "this is a test firewall"
    priority = "1000"
    direction = "INGRESS"
    network = "projects/project-id/regions/us-east1/subnetworks/default"
    target_service_accounts = ["service-account-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com"]
    source_ranges = ["10.128.0.0/20"]
    allow {
        protocol = "tcp"
        ports    = ["80", "8080", "1000-2000"]
    }
}

Egress

provider "google" {
    project = "project-id"
}
resource "google_compute_firewall" "default" {
    name    = "test-firewall"
    description = "this is a test firewall"
    priority = "1000"
    direction = "EGRESS"
    network = "projects/project-id/regions/us-east1/subnetworks/default"
    target_service_accounts = ["service-account-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com"]
    destination_ranges = ["10.128.0.0/20"]
    allow {
        protocol = "tcp"
        ports    = ["80", "8080", "1000-2000"]
    }
}

Service account to Service account.

provider "google" {
    project = "project-id"
}
resource "google_compute_firewall" "default" {
    name    = "test-firewall"
    description = "this is a test firewall"
    priority = "1000"
    direction = "INGRESS"
    network = "projects/project-id/regions/us-east1/subnetworks/default"
    source_service_accounts = ["source-service-account-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com"]
    target_service_accounts = ["target-service-account-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com"]
    source_ranges = ["10.128.0.0/20"]
    allow {
        protocol = "tcp"
        ports    = ["80", "8080", "1000-2000"]
    }
}

Create A Swap File

How to create a swap file.

A 2GB swap file.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1k count=2048k

Activate.

mkswap /swapfile
chmod 0600 /swapfile
systemctl daemon-reload
swapon /swapfile

To make swap permanent, add to /etc/fstab.

/swapfile  swap   swap    defaults   0 0

Check if swap is working.

cat /proc/swaps
free -h

AWS LightSail Create Terraform

Here’s how to launch a LightSail instance using Terraform. Create a main.tf file.

terraform {
  required_providers {
    aws = {
      version = >= 3.22.0"
      source = "hashicorp/aws"
    }
  }
}
provider "aws" {
  profile = "default"
  region  = "us-east-1"
}
resource "aws_lightsail_instance" "yourinstance" {
  name              = "yourinstance"
  availability_zone = "us-east-1a"
  blueprint_id      = "amazon_linux_2"
  bundle_id         = "nano_2_0"
}

To launch, run the following Terraform commands.

terraform init
terraform apply